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trict had acquired the art of making thin plates of beaten 
bronze, as vessels of that material analogous to the British cal- 
drons just described were among them. They differed, however, 
from the British types, inasmuch as the spheroidal forms on the 
Fig. 4. — Bronze Caldron (19 inches in height) found at Cardross. 
Continent had no suspension rings, but only handles riveted to 
their sides, while the buckets had generally bow handles like 
those of our common water-pails. As this Hallstatt civilisation 
spread westwards in Europe, it gathered so many new ideas in 
France and Switzerland that it became necessary to distinguish 
